Steven Henry Scheuer (/ʃɔɪər/ SHOY-er) (January 9, 1926 – May 31, 2014) was a film and television historian and critic.
[1][2] In 1953, he founded TV Key, which produced a daily list of recommendations for what to watch on television and was distributed by King Features Syndicate and appeared in up to 300 newspapers.
[3] His wife when he died was author and feminist social critic Alida Brill.
By the release of Leonard Maltin's similarly titled TV Movies in September 1969 (later rebranded Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide), there had been five editions of Scheuer's book under four different names.
[5] It wasn't until the eighth edition (1978-79) that Scheuer started to include the movie's director and expanded the short synopses.